Added on 09/07/2011
James M. Dorsey
airline , Dubai , English Premier League , Etihad , Etihad Airways , Football , Manchester City , New York , Newcastle , Soccer , Sponsorship , The Guardian , UEFA
JAMES M. DORSEY: The agreement dwarfs Arsenal FC’s 2004 deal with Dubai’s Emirates Airways that was valued at $144 million over 15 years.
Added on 17/06/2011
Mich Cafe
Art , Barcelona , Beirut , Henry Moore , Lebanon , New York , painter , Prime Minister , Rafik Hariri , Sculptor , Spain , Summer Olympics
MICHE CAFE: I love these huge figures. They make you stop, think… And the idea of public works of art, open for all to see and appreciate, or disparage – is brilliant.
Added on 11/06/2011
Juan Cole
Anthony Weiner , Columbia University , Congress , Gaza , Israel , Israeli army , Israeli navy , Lebanon , Mahatma Gandhi , Mahmoud Abbas , Middle East , Middle East Opinions of America , New York , Palestine , Palestine Authority , Palestine Liberation Organization , President , South Africa , South Lebanon , The New York Times , United Nations , United States , West Bank
JUAN COLE: Forget about the ‘sexting scandal’, Anthony Weiner has a lot more to answer for than some private peccadilloes. His blind allegiance to Israel means that he’s played a uniformly sinister role on Middle East matters.
Added on 30/05/2011
Mondoweiss
Ben Gurion University , central Israel , Ehud Olmert , Europe , Gaza , Israel , Jerusalem , Massachusetts , New York , Obama , Palestine , West Bank
PHILIP WEISS, MONDOWEISS: The premise of conducting a swap is, I believe, that you have something of equal value for the other party. Tell that to Israel.
Added on 18/05/2011
James M. Dorsey
Angela Merkel , Asia , Asian Football Confederation , Brazil , Brussels , chancellor , China , David Cameron , deputy chairman , Dominique Strauss-Kahn , Economy , Europe , European Union , FIFA , Finance , finance minister , Germany , Gordon Brown , Governor , Greece , India , International Monetary Fund , Ireland , Manmohan Singh , Mohamed bin Hammam , Morocco , New York , Nicolas Sarkozy , Portugal , President , Prime Minister , Russia , Sepp Blatter , Singapore , South Africa , Turkey , United Kingdom , United States , Washington , World Bank
JAMES M. DORSEY: Emerging markets are demanding that the heads of major international institutions be chosen on the basis of merit…
Added on 18/05/2011
Hisham Wyne
Afghanistan , Al Qaeda , America , Ayman al-Zawahiri , George W. Bush , Iraq , Karachi , Media pundits , Middle East , New York , Noam Chomsky , North Atlantic Treaty Organization , Obama , Osama Bin Laden , Pakistan , White House
HISHAM WYNE: There is much speculation about who has replaced bin Laden. The fertile conditions for the organisation persist, particularly in Pakistan.
Added on 11/05/2011
Common Ground News Service
Afghanistan , Al Qaeda , America , Barack Obama , Common Ground News Service , East Africa , East Asia , Egypt , Europe , Iraq , Islam , Journalist , Middle East , Mona Eltahawy , New York , North Africa , Osama Bin Laden , Qatar , Robert Fisk , Search for Common Ground , Shadi Hamid , South Asia , Taliban , The Wall Street Journal , Tunisia , United States , White House
SYDNEY SMITH: Most Muslims, it appears, are relieved that bin Laden is gone but how do they deal with the prejudice and suspicion engendered by his deeds?
Added on 05/05/2011
Common Ground News Service
Abbottabad , Afghanistan , Al Qaeda , Barack Obama , Central Intelligence Agency , David Petraeus , Inter-Services Intelligence , Islamabad , Media coverage , Mike Rogers , New York , Osama Bin Laden , Pakistan , Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence , President , Social networking , Taliban , United States , US government , US intelligence , Washington , White House
HUMA YUSUF, CGNEWS: The way in which the United States summarily despatched Osama bin Laden on Pakistani territory has alarmed and upset many in the country. Unlikely as it seems there is, however, room for optimism.
Added on 15/04/2011
Ramzy Baroud
Benjamin Netanyahu , Eli Yishai , Gaza , Hamas , International Criminal Court , Israel , Lebanon , New York , Palestine , Prime Minister , professor of law , Richard Goldstone , The Jerusalem Post , the New Statesman , The New York Times , The Washington Post , UN Human Rights Council , United Nations , United States
RAMZY BAROUD: Eighteen months of relentless pressure by the Israeli authorities eventually bore fruit with the publication of Goldstone’s now notorious op-ed. Cheers can only be heard in Tel Aviv.
Added on 26/03/2011
M.-Lynx-Qualey
BBC , Ghazi Gheblawi , Khaled Mattawa , Libya , New York , Poet , Poetry
M. LYNX QUALEY: “Now that we have lived on this hard-earned crust, We would sooner die than seek any other taste to life, Any other way of being human…”
Added on 23/03/2011
Common Ground News Service
Cairo , Common Ground News Service , Democracy , Egypt , Hosni Mubarak , Manitoba , Muslim Brotherhood , National Democratic Party (NDP) , New York , President , Technology , United States
HODA OSMAN: How far will you go to exercise your new-found ability to vote? I’ll tell you how far – 5,621 miles which is the distance from New York to Cairo
Added on 19/03/2011
Steve Royston
Bahrain , Barack Obama , Bill Gates , Colonel , Conventional media , Egypt , Google+ , Hamlet , History , Islamabad , Japan , Middle East , Mubarak , New York , Photography , Stalin , United States , YouTube
STEVE ROYSTON: If it is possible to build a Wikipedia in ten years, is it not also possible to build a disciplined, structured resource that delivers images – both moving and static – in a similar manner?
Added on 24/02/2011
sally
Abdullah , New York , Saudi Arabia
If the Saudi Medical services are so top notch why did King Abdullah have to go to New York for his recent micro discectomy?
Saudi Arabia is the root of much of the trouble in the world and the perpetration of the most fanatic and evil branch of Wahabi…
Added on 21/02/2011
Michael J. Totten
Afghanistan , Africa , Algeria , America , Basketball , Beirut , Bolivia , Brussels , Colonel , Costa Rica , Darfur , Fateh , France , Green Square , Guatemala , Hawaii , Internet cafés , Italy , Kansas , Law , Lawrence , Lebanon , Libya , London , Los Angeles , Mediterranean , Mediterranean Sea , Middle East , Morocco , Muammar Qaddafi , New York , North Korea , Oil , Palestinian Territories , Paris , Pepsi , Philippines , Prague , President , Sahara , Seattle , shopkeeper , Tel Aviv , travel ban , Tripoli , Tunisia , Turkey , United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization , US Federal Reserve , Vienna
MICHAEL J. TOTTEN: Two years ago I spent time in Libya. It seems like a good time to revisit my experience of a kind people but an overarching, clamping presence.
Added on 12/02/2011
Tabsir
Cairo , Egypt , Hosni Mubarak , Isis , New York , pharaoh , Tahrir Square , YouTube
DANIEL VARISCO: In ways he is a stark iconic shadow of Mubarak. In the end Don Giovanni meets his stone-cold fate: A statue of Ozymandias drags him down into hell
Added on 09/02/2011
Mondoweiss
Boycott Divestment and Sanctions , California , Civil society , Europe , General Assembly , Germany , Illinois , International Court of Justice , Israel , Israeli government , Jerusalem , Latin America , legitimate tool , Maryland , Middle East , Middle East Opinions of America , New York , North Carolina , Obama , Olympics , Palestine , Pennsylvania , political tools , President , South Africa , U.S. Congress , United Nations , United States , US military , West Bank
DAVID SCHWARTZMAN, MAI ABDUL, MONDOWEISS: The Middle East peace process is going nowhere fast and interested parties are giving up on the U.S.
Added on 31/01/2011
Tabsir
Ben Ali , Egypt , Euphrates , Facebook , Hosni Mubarak , Iran , Israel , Mediterranean , Mediterranean coast , Mubarak , New York , Nile , pharaoh , Rubber bullets , Sadat , Saddam Hussein , Twitter , United States Agency for International Development
DANIEL M. VARISCO: His survival as Egypt’s modern day Pharaoh is looking less likely by the hour. How will his legacy stack up?
Added on 28/01/2011
James M. Dorsey
Al Qaeda , Asia , Bahrain , Dubai , East Africa , Egypt , Football , Jeddah , Middle East , Morocco , New York , North Africa , oil-rich emirate , Oman , President , Qatar , Saudi Arabia , Seattle , Soccer , The Huffington Post , Tunisia , United States , Washington , Zine el Abidine Ben Ali
JAMES M. DORSEY: Mounting criticism of Middle Eastern nations’ failure to nurture soccer talent has created a business opportunity for European clubs.
Added on 27/01/2011
Steve Royston
Booz and Co , Energy , Facebook , Internet connection , KPMG , London , New York , Riyadh , Saudi Arabia , Telecommunications , World Trade Organization
STEVE ROYSTON: If they are to be lasting, appropriate and sustainable, the solutions themselves must come from within, not from the West.
Added on 08/01/2011
Marium Sattar
Abbas ibn Firnas , Academy Award , Actor , Africa , Asia , Common Ground News Service , Cordoba , DC , Europe , Greece , Islam , Istanbul , London , New York , Pew Research Center , Rome , Spain , United Kingdom , Washington
MARIUM SATTAR: An exhibition showcasing the discoveries of Islam’s ‘Golden Age’ has attracted visitors in the hundreds of thousands, and helped overturn some pervasive prejudices.
